About the author (1957)

Sir Peter Buck graduated from the University of Otago in 1904 and spend the next 22 years practicing medicine among the Maoris. He served briefly in Parliament, acted as the director of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and was a professor of anthropology at Yale University. He was honored by the Academy of the Royal Society of New Zealand and a medal was established in his honor to recognize excellence in the social sciences.